felis ambitiosus June 11, 2010 – September 8, 2025 On December 6, 2010, my then-wife adopted a young cat from the Animal Welfare League of Frederick County (Maryland), already named Lola at the shelter, a.k.a. “KITTY #8 LOCKLAIR,” according to the initial vaccination document that we were given. Her cat Lola moved in the same…
I was recently watching The Color of Money (1986), a sequel to The Hustler (1961), and that got me wondering — how old is the concept of a “legacy sequel,” and could I think af any earlier sequels? After posting my question on farious social medias, and chatting with friends, I think we came up…
My old Blu-ray drive just died on me, so I had to get a new one. The only one that I could pick up locally that seemed to be on the MakeMKV approved list was an LG BP50NB40 with the SVC code NB52. As of this writing, they are still available at my local Best…
Recently, Plex keeps importing old movies in my library as new, and I’ve been trying to figure out why that’s happening. It’s been especially annoying, as it is discarding the custom posters and other metadata that I’ve entered for the movie, and wiping out a lot of work I did to make the metada nice…
Came across this by accident today. Love this idea of using polarization to add funky colors
NOTE: This is based on a GitHub repo at https://github.com/swizzlevixen/Mac-Server-Reliability which may contain updates from what is written here. Please Check my GitHub, or comment here, if you encounter any errors. This is a collection of helpful notes, and a suite of scripts written for my Mac mini M2 server, that help with server reliability,…
For thanksgiving this year, I made two cocktails for pre-dinner drinks. Here are the full recipes. Flannel Shirt A recipe from Jeffrey Morgenthaler, this whisky and apple cocktail with spiced notes tastes like Thanksgiving in a glass. 13⁄4 oz/50 ml scotch whisky 11⁄2 oz/45 ml fresh apple cider 1⁄2 oz/15 ml Averna amaro 1⁄4 oz/7.5…